Quotes About Relationships

I say nothing against friendship, for I have tasted the sweets of it, and I know nothing of love, having never myself experienced a touch of it, but I find that in the making of poetry love is the most useful of all the themes that a poet may play upon.

It seems to me now that true love is the only theme for either song or story.

If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen" (1 Jn 4:20).

Men are always jealous of women who are superior to themselves.

Of all things in this world love is the most unmanageable. Parents and guardians are sadly foiled when they undertake to guide and coerce it: and the best thing they can do with it is to leave it to itself.

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

The law of change says, "Things do not stay the same. If they don't get better, they get worse." If relationships do not get stronger, they will get weaker; if they do not become closer, they will become more distant; if they do not become more productive, they will become less productive.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

Overheard at a gravesite: "And they all said 'I'm sorry for your loss,' as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me."

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time — and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.